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Cross-Harbour Tunnel was completely suspended during protest in November 2019. The Hong Kong government used the operator model "Build Operate Transfer", or "BOT", for the implementation of the tunnel project; Financing and construction was the responsibility of a private enterprise, which was granted a concession to operate and collect tolls for 30 years.
Prior to the opening of the Cross-Harbour Tunnel, vehicular traffic travelling across the Victoria Harbour relied on ferry services as early as 1933. [1] The Cross-Harbour Tunnel opened in 1972. due to the ever increasing population in Hong Kong and improving prosperity made the construction of further tunnels a necessity.
Immersed tube tunnel carrying Tung Chung line and Airport Express of MTR - between Hong Kong and Kowloon stations (opened 1998) Sha Tin to Central Link (cross-harbour section) (Contract 1121) - East Rail - between Hung Hom and Exhibition Centre stations (opened in 2022)
Tunnel to the west of Kap Shui Mun Bridge; Tunnels owned by the KCRC leased to the MTRC: Lion Rock Tunnel (Tuen Ma line) East Rail line Cross-Harbour extension (Shatin to Central Link Cross-Harbour section; Contract 1121) [7] Underground sections of MTR: Kwun Tong line: Whampoa – Choi Hung; Lam Tin – Tiu Keng Leng (Black Hill Tunnels) Tsuen ...
The Eastern Harbour Crossing (Chinese: 東區海底隧道), abbreviated as "EHC" (Chinese: 東隧), is a combined road-rail tunnel that crosses beneath Victoria Harbour in Hong Kong. Opened on 21 September 1989, it is the second harbour-crossing tunnel built and the longest amongst the three.
First proposed as early as 1967 [1] in a study commissioned by the Hong Kong government in 1966, [2] it was the first railway tunnel to cross the Victoria Harbour and also the first subsea railway tunnel in the territory. It was the second fixed crossing to cross the harbour, after the vehicular Cross Harbour Tunnel opened in 1972.
Victoria Harbour is a natural landform harbour in Hong Kong separating Hong Kong Island in the south from the Kowloon Peninsula to the north. The harbour's deep, sheltered waters and strategic location on South China Sea were instrumental in Hong Kong's establishment as a British colony in 1841 and its subsequent development as a trading centre.
Western Harbour Crossing: 0.0 0.0 1A Route 4 Connaught Road West (eastbound) – Sai Ying Pun, Sheung Wan, Central and Wan Chai Joins Route 4: 1B Route 4 Connaught Road West (westbound) – Shek Tong Tsui, Kennedy Town,Pok Fu Lam and Aberdeen Victoria Harbour: 0.2 - 2.2 0.1 - 1.4 Western Harbour Tunnel (tolled) Yau Tsim Mong: West Kowloon West ...